Weigh-in Day...

I missed weigh-in last week because I was camping. Today I weighed in and lost 2 pounds. I'm happy for the loss and glad I didn't have a gain after camping last week. This puts me at 47 pounds lost...really close to 50 pounds lost. I think I am in shock of the weight I have lost...it is so strange to think that I have lost 47 pounds, I have never done this well before when I have tried to lose weight. I usually lose a bit, never any more than 20-30 pounds, then gain it all back plus more. I know it's not much compared to some and I still have a lot more to lose but this is still more than I have ever lost in my life. This feel good.

I didn't take very much healthy food with us and just took what we had around the house this time. I did try to be mindful of what I ate but, not always. My husband made eggs and bacon and bagels for breakfast every morning and he cooks with more oil (olive oil) than I do and of course the eggs have to have cheese on them. The bacon we eat is turkey and I did take fat free cream cheese for the bagel. I tried to limit my intake of the food that we did have and enjoy small portions. We ate popcorn and smores every night and played games. We invented and new smore......smoreos...you take a chocolate cream oreo and roast a marshmallow to put in between the cookie halves. (we didn't have the stuff for the original smores but we did have marshmallows and chocolate cream oreos) These are better that the original smores. Calories are high.....100 calories in each smoreo. I had one each night.

I walked every day. One day we were going to go for an evening walk before we roasted our hotdogs so we set out for about a half an hour walk and ended up down a trail that led us to the "big sand dune" that the kids climb every year with my husband. I have never climbed it with them and they wanted to "show" it to me. We got there and this sand dune is huge! it was about a quarter mile up and almost straight up! They all took off climbing! and I was left there standing....looking up. Two of the kids were on all four....hands and feet climbing up to the top. The other one was half way up digging his feet into the sand with every step. My husband looked at me and so what was I to do????? I said "ok, I'll give it a try." It was so steep that I too had to use my hands and feet. Every step I took I slid back down where I started. I had to take three or four steps to even make any progress, the sand would just move down and out from under me. I had to stop about four times on the way up and catch my breath. This was more hard work than I have ever done in my life I think. I finally made it to the top...it was beautiful...you could see for miles of the beach and sand dunes. At the top was a ridge you could walk on that was about four feet wide. We walked along that for awhile and then back to where we had climbed up. When we had got to the top my pedometer read .5 of a mile. Now I had to go back down.......without falling flat on my face and rolling into a huge sand ball at the bottom. I made it down slowly by digging in my heals on the way down. Then they took me on another trail to get back to the campsight. It was dark by the time we got back. It as a huge challenge and I was glad I tried it in the end. I'm not sure about trying it again though......I'll have to think about that one. If you are interested I wrote about the "sand dune hike" last year when we went camping and it did not turn out the same. This was a big deal to me and even though I didn't go on the whole hike I did climb the HUGE DUNE! Maybe next year I can do the whole hike!

I also did another thing I have never done before in my life while I was camping......I jogged for 20 minutes around the camp ground. I am not a jogger....I do love to walk though. I do not know what got into me, I just felt like jogging with the dog. I felt pretty good about that too. My daughter went with me and she thought it was so fun. I went slow but I did it and I think it was about 3/4 of a mile.

What new challenges have you tried lately?? I would love to hear about them.

I have been getting a lot of migraines this month and I think it is because I have been so busy and not getting enough sleep. So I better get off here and get to bed for the night.
Hope everyone is doing well.